... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
on Saturday, local sources said.
The attacks occurred in the town of Biu, about 185 kilometres (115 miles) south of the Borno State capital, Maiduguri, which has been at the epicentre of Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...'s insurgency.
"Twojacket wallah'>
"One of the bombers detonated an improvised bomb (IED) strapped to her body within Biu's main market, while the other one detonated outside the market square," the front man said.
The police said 13 people were killed, while a front man for a local civilian militia Ibrahim Saidu Maniya said the corpse count was as high as 18.
No one has grabbed credit for the attack, but the Boko Haram group, led by Abubakar Shekau
... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ..., has previously used women and adolescent suicide bombers to carry out attacks in the area.
"They were powerful blasts which were heard all over the town," Biu resident Ahmad Babagana, who lost a friend in the attack, told AFP.
"I heard huge blasts that came in succession and saw plumes of black smoke coming from the direction of the market," said another resident, Zakari Tiko. "I instantly knew the market had been attacked," Tiko said.
Biu and neighbouring villages have been repeatedly hit by suicide and kabooms blamed on Boko Haram over the last eight years. In August 2015, a suicide bomber killed at least 50 people at a market in a nearby village.